Wednesday 6 July 2022

The ABC gets it right and wrong

 The times they are depressing so I am going to write about something not very important.

In recent times the ABC have had to replace people in TV and radio ( in Sydney).

Replacing Leigh Sales with Sarah Ferguson made sense. If anything she is a better interviewer than Sales and she takes no  prisoners.

It is radio their changes make little sense. We eventually got rid of Fran Kelly on RN breakfast but replacing her with Patricia Karvelas was a poor choice. She was competent in the drive shift previously but in breakfast the world revolves around her. ( It is also why she is a poor Insiders hostess). She is not a great interviewer. Hamish McDonald was the perfect replacement. Like David Speers he lets his questions make all the noise that is needed. This is why politicians often get into trouble with him.

On 702 they moved James Valentine form early afternoons where he was good to breakfast. you should never reduce your strengths. Valentine simply does not click with breakfast and his replacement Josh Szeps is simply boring. 2BL have has a number of good breakfast presenters so why change?


Rant over

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